xi, 423 pages : 23 cm

This collection of essays draws together questions of value and evaluation in relation to studies of historical and contemporary art and artists, within a broad 'social history of art' conceptual framework

Includes bibliographical references

Introduction : With postmodernism grounded : prospects for renewal in critical art history / Jonathan Harris -- Dark side of the landscape / John Barrell -- Forecasting Belshazzar's fall / Albert Boime -- 'Real primitives' : Cézanne, Wittgenstein, and the nature of aesthetic quality / Paul Smith -- Death and tourism : Claude Monet's paintings of Venice / Stephen F. Eisenman -- Phenomenality and materiality in Cézanne / T.J. Clark -- The end of left art history? / T.J. Clark -- Prosthetic illusions of masculinity : Hans Bellmer's dolls and the Fascist imaginary / Susanne Baackmann -- René Magritte and the spectre of commodity fetishism / David Craven -- Three artists (three women) / Anne M. Wagner -- Suspensa vix via fit : Jasper Johns' Catenary ; The work of art and the art object ; The everyday self and the extraordinary self / Fred Orton -- 'Norman Rockwell' at the Guggenheim / Alan Wallach -- The capture of meaning / John Tagg -- The dialectic of disappointment : Adorno and art criticism since the 1980s / Paul Mattick -- 'Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure' : beauty discourse and the logic of aesthetics / Amelia Jones -- Virtuosity and contrivance in the new sculpture / Brandon Taylor

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